Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-01-13

offered by Mr.. Vest increasing the pension
of the widow of General F. P. Blair to
$1,000 year was also passed. The Interstate
Commerce bill was then taken up and debated
until adjournment. -. In the Huse9 in Com
mittee of the Whole, the bill was considered for
the permanent improvement of the Erie and
Oswego canals. At the expiration of the morn
ing hour the House again went into Comraittee
of the Whole on the Naval Reorganization bill,
which was debated until adjournment.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
THE statement of the National debt for
December showed a total debt of 81, ZIG, 0S3,
692, less cash items, available for reduction,
of $341, 902, 564, making the total debt s., 341,
9S4, 496. The decrease for December was
1885, 2O2. The total cash in the treasury
December 81 was S444, 915, 7SS.
THE President recently approved the bills
to extend the free delivery system of the
Post-office Department and modify the postal
money order system; also the act providing
for public building at Springfield, Mass,
and the act for the relief of the survivors
and relatives of victims of the Jeanette
Arctic expedition.
RUMoRs were afiOat recently of dispo
sition among General Logan's friends to
impute the cause of his very unexpected
death to some mistake of the doctors. The
blunt statement was made that he was
killed by the administration of aSonite or
morphine or both. There is promise of
medical dispute. But the 1amily We're per-
fectly satisfied with the medical treatment.
THE President has COMMITTED to five
years Imprisonment the death sentence of
John W. Parrott, of Arkansas, convicted of
murder and sentenced 90 ne hanged Jan
uary IA.
THE Second Comptroller al Washington
gecently decided that sunstroke acts the
same wounds in the securing of bounty
20 discharged soldiers
THE President resumed his official duties
on the morning of the 4th. He was still
suffering from rheumatic pains bue seemed
TO be improving steadily.
PRIVATE telegram was received at
Washington the 5th, stating that Secre-
tary Lamar was married at ten o'clock on
that morning to Mrs. Holt, at Macon, Ga
THE new civil service rulaSwere Recently
approved by the President.
THE bill granting Mrs. Logan a pension
of s., 600 annually passed the Senate with
out dissenting voice on the 9th.
THE oEAsT.
MITTINEAGUE station, Mass, was Che
scene of a frightful railroad accident on the
4th, the train being thrown from the track
by broken wheel. A large number were
injured and several were killed.
THE attempt to establish fund for the
late Senator Logan's widow in New York
has been allowed to languish, but will pro-
badly be again made under the direction of
General Fairchild. of the G. A. r.
THE councif of the Fenian Brotherhood at
New York recently issued another circular
Glenouncing O'Donovan Rosa.
AT st. Johnsburg recently William E.
@Dizan, of WheelocE, VT, a small town in
the northern part of CALEDONIA County, was
4odged in jail, charged with numbering his
infant daughter l. is alleged that when
Ihe infant was four months old DizaR
crushed its head with a blow of his fist.
This took place three years ago this winter,
and since that time the Dizans have had
four children, two being twins. AL these
infants Dizan is alleged to have disposed of
in the same manner, crushing the heads
with a blow of his fist.
THE Knights of Labor in New York said
recently that the reported decision OF dis
trict assembly No. "a, of Chicago, taking
back all the hard things said of PowderlF,
will make no difference in the demand for a
special session OF the general assembly.
The evils which are to be rcmedied at the
special session are still in the order, and
they say that unless a special session is
held the order will split in two before next
October.
TWENTY boys were coasting at Rutland,
VT, On the 9Th, on n traverse Sled, when it
struck the side of a bridge at tho foot of
the hill, throwing the boys head first into
the stream. Cyril Gee, fifteen years old,
was thrown twenty feet. His head struck
against q stump, and the whole top of his
skull was crushed in and he was reported
y
was injured internally and will probably
die Thomas Shields, twelve years old, was
pickedup unconscious. The remaining sew
enteen boys were more or less bruised, but
none seriously hurt
SEvENTY-FIvE glass manufacturers, rep
resenting all sections of the Country, met
in Pittsburgh, Pa, a. short TINE ago and
formed the American Association of Flint
and Lime Glass Manufacturers. There was
no discussion of prices or wages.
. ARCHBISHOP KIRBY wrote recently from
Rome to Mr.. Moriarity, of Syracuse, n. Y,
and said that the Pope was enjoying good
health, but the reigning authorities con-
tinued to wage an implacable war against
the Church and all its sacred institutions.
A RECENT New York special said that
- John Baird, the Scotch engineer who su-
perintended the construction of the ele-
waited railroad of that city and accumulated
large fortune, had Received a decree in
his favor in his long contest with MS wife
and children, who had tried to keep him IN
an insane asylum while they spent his
money.